The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-24
BITS FROM BRIGHAM.
E. Fl. P. Comes Back at His
Assailants.
THAT CASE OF CONSPIRACY
de Reads The Trio q Lecture That
Should Make Them Forever
Hold Their Peace.


Tribune, under the head OF THAT
Brigham City Matter" requires some
correcting in order that the lover
of truth may not be deceived; am not
a contributor to, nor reader OF, the
Tribune, but this matter was brought
to my notice to-day, and as it refers, in
part, to me and an article that ap-
peared in THE HERALD over my initials,
1 will ask the privilege of correcting the
falsehoods it contained through your
columns.
In the first place where is THE HERALD
and whose is the article designating our
commissioner "heartless scoundrel, "
as this letter in the Tribune states? We
have not seen it and would like to have
it produced; not that it might not be
said, and with propriety, but that it
has been said, in any article from here.
we deny and challenge proof to the
contrary. Lie No. l.
Now to that PERSONAL matter; no
libel was inter ded and none given
unless the truth is considered libel.
Deputy Steele knows he went to the
cemetery to arrest Marshal Rees, ana
when he got there he found the mar
shall standing over the open grave OF
who was killed by train
at Pocatello) with a shovel in his hands,
prepared to assist with the labor OF re-
placing the dirt AT this juncture he
was summoned by the deputy, as q
score of people who were present will
testify. l would like to ask the trio
who wrote the Tribune rot, If thess are
not the facts in the caseP What led to
the controversy between Rees and
Chase very soon after, when Rees cen
sured the deputy for his precipitate
action, and when Chase assumed the
role of bully in defense of Steele?
Rees says our report of the affair was
correct. they say it was not. The
veraclty of Rees we can vouch for. We
have shown by lie No. l that the Tribune
trio cannot be depended or, so We are
compelled, however relL ltly, to set
this down against them a. No. 2.
They next proceed to say that "he
who signed himself e. Il. P IN former
article, is none other than the operator
at the railroad office" This is not SO.
E. Il. P. is not the operator, and has
not 6een for 10 these many years. Lie
No. 3.
As to the truth or falsity of the other
point touched upon in this Tribune
etfusion, we are not prepared at
present to decide; that will be deter
mined, we hope, by the First District
Court; but whether it be true or false
we have nailed three lies. one for each
of the trio. Their letter should con-
tain one truth, as redeeming feature.
and to be neighborly we will grant
them the benefit of a doubt and say
they have one truth TO three lies, which
is quite up to the average of Tribune
correspondents when they touch on
anything Mormon.
And now one word about employer
and employee. The plasterer referred to
turned out to be second class work
man and a frst-class spotter; by his
open and defiant manner (too much
gab) he made himself peculiarly OBJ
noxious. We had friends here, first
class mechanics, who were idle; why
not employ them in preference to
second class one who persisted in
being foe? Would not our s.lf-
boosted American gentlemen with
small q have done the same thing?
Railroad corporations seldom, if ever,
NEEDLE with politics or religion and so
long as an employee does his duty by
them, and his qualifications are what
they should be, that man is safe, no
matter what his profession. Unlike
Tribune correspondents, andf urth rate
lawy ers, railroad magnates are not
narrow-minded and bigoted; and
in place like ours, where the popula-
ton and BUSH ess is almost exclusively
Mormon, they are reasonable enough to
concede to our 80 per cent. of the peo-
pie and trade, public servant who is a
friend and not an enemy; nor are they
averse to having said public servant
defend himself when assailed by ven-
omous vipers over a nom de plume. Just
try to curtail that grasping, ayaricious
propensity little and don't Chase"
around after something you haven't
the mental calibre to hold down. if it
were given you. We know where the
shoe pinches, and would try to help you
if we thought you we're worthy. "a
Gentle railroad employs none but Gen
tile agents." eh? Why not Mormon
town have Mormon postmaster, Mr..
American? It's poor rule that won't
work both ways; but your sentiments
are entirely 1t1a-AmeTican, and as your
next fictitious title l would suggest |
Greed" as more in keeping with your
daily walk and conversation.
In abiding to the senior author OF
the Tribune slush, the writer hereof re
calls the day of the passage of
the Edmunds-Tucker iniamy, when
this man of years (he is old
enough to know better was
so highly elated over his future pros
pacts that he leaped into the air, cracked
his heels together and shouted GLORY,
Hallelujahl' because that bill las il
passed the House, meant thousands OF
dollars to him in fat Offices" We also
recollect how that he was persistent |
applicant for the Probate judgeship,
solicitor for the county cierkship, then |
the prosecuting attorneyship and from
that to almost anything the munich |
pality had to offer, but they were all |
denied him and it is no wonder the poor
old man feels sore.
1 Judge of the authors of the Tribune
article from the way it starts: Ill |
is popping in Brigham" They pride
in the use of vulgar exple-
lives and are as profane as boy in
blue. These natural propensities, with
other unmistakeable land marks
through the piece, have been equivalent
TO three signatures in full